EnochLight wrote: ↑21 Feb 2018
bxbrkrz wrote: ↑20 Feb 2018
We assume for a fact humans before us were not that advanced, and we, right now are much smarter. The paradox is we also still teach the ancient philosophers as the greatest minds ever (with *good* reasons).
I can see how the discovery of things like the Baghdad Battery or the Antikythera mechanism might suggest this. Some people still look at the construction of the Great Pyramids as something humans couldn't do by themselves (which is just silly), but make no mistake: we have very detailed records of human history for the past 2500 years, and from an archaeological perspective - for several thousand years before that. We have never been more technologically advanced that we have been
today. NOW.
I mean, unless you subscribe to the fiction of Erich Von Daniken, Zecharia Sitchin, or the series finale of the Battlestar Galactica reboot. In which case, carry on.
I like alien stories, UFOs, Scifi movies (except the finale of BSG, Lost, SW's TLJ, and anything bought and touched by the Mouse recently), but I love believing in what the human mind can accomplished way, way more.
Erich Von Daniken believes (for those reading this thread not wanting to duckduckgo his name and his book, "
The chariots of the Gods") that everything amazing built in the "extreme" past (we can't carbon date rocks) were done with the help of aliens from outer space. The part that's offending to me is humans can never do anything without the help from a superior master race from the stars. If space aliens can travel and visit us, did another much much older race of space aliens helped their ancestors too? This vision is reducing humans to nothingness and that we should not believe we too could be the aliens visiting other worlds one day, thanks to the power of our own mind, developed on our planet.
Another idea about that theory is this: if you use a service or a product for free, you are the product. Why would aliens give us, stupid cavemen, the knowledge of Φ = 1.618033988749895 and everything else, for free? It surely wasn't free for them to travel across the universe. So was it... "
To Serve Man"?
We don't need the help from the Anunnaki and Nibiru to learn more about Göbekli Tepe, a place
built by Hunter-gatherers 12000 (?) years ago, to marveled at the precision the builders used at places like Sacsayhuamán or Puma Punku. Amazing stuff. To believe there are no more mysteries, everything has been explained away, that we can do and recreate everything done before is strange. We can't. We know because people tried, many times, with modern knowledge and modern tools and could not.
Mankind in Amnesia
One thing is for sure though: I know I will always get my fresh GMOs exclusively from Amazon Prime, on time. And on time for the next 10 000 years.
Thank you Jeff Bezos! You are the man of the hour. May your immortal life be plentiful.
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